CloudNC has raised $20 million in new funding as it looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence across precision manufacturing, moving beyond CNC programming into other time-consuming parts of the machining workflow. The round was led by US-based Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures, the venture capital…
Carlos Moreira, CEO and founder of SEALSQ, is a veteran cybersecurity and digital trust executive with decades of experience spanning secure semiconductors, digital identity, telecommunications, and emerging technologies. He is also the founder, chairman, and CEO of WISeKey, which he established in 1999, and serves as Secretary General of the OISTE Foundation. Earlier in his…
Harvey announced on September 9, 2026, its acquisition of Guardrails AI, a San Francisco-based AI security platform for agents, in what the legal AI company said is its fourth acquisition of 2026. Guardrails co-founders Shreya Rajpal and Zayd Simjee and their team will join Harvey’s product and engineering organization. Harvey chief executive Winston Weinberg said…
Natural language processing is the field concerned with computational methods for analyzing, understanding, generating, and interacting through human language. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Qualtrics announced the XM Data & AI Platform on September 9, 2026, an AI system the company says is built to simulate outcomes, predict what individual customers are likely to do and act inside the moment. The platform is scheduled for release in 2027, with two related offerings available immediately. Chief executive Jason Maynard framed…
Harvey announced on September 9, 2026 that it has raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation in a funding round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The legal AI company said the capital will accelerate its efforts to help law firms, in-house legal teams, and professional services firms build and own their intelligence…
I have worked in voice since 2017, long enough to have lived through one hype cycle and to watch a second one gain real momentum. While this second wave is technically more impressive, the conversation around it has collapsed into numbers. Very little of it is about how people actually speak and I would say…
Why MSPs Should Start with the Workload, Not the Hardware Spend five minutes at an AI conference and you could easily come away believing that every successful AI deployment begins with buying more GPUs. It is easy to understand why. Hardware dominates the conversation. Customers hear about Blackwell systems, InfiniBand fabrics, hyperscale clouds, and increasingly…
In 2024, if you called a company’s support line and got routed to a “voice agent,” you knew you were talking to a machine within the first few seconds. A few seconds of dead air between your question and its answer and it was obvious that software was on the other side of the line….
Suno on September 9, 2026 introduced v6, a new generation of music models developed with industry partners including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, according to the company’s announcement. Suno said that as v6 rolls out, it will retire its previous models and move the product entirely onto the v6 generation. Suno described v6 as…